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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Cobol Explain to be saved as Annocations in AD

It would be useful to be able to save the COBOL Explain text as a annotation in ADDI. Today you can save/insert it as a comment in the cobol code. But if we could save it as an annotation in ADDI, then the explanation would also be available to bu...
about 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release

Allow opening multiple instance of watsonx Orchestrate on the same browser (different tabs)

We have a premium subscription to watsonx Orchestrate and therefore, users access the wxO instances via the SaaS subscription console. When using this portal, we are not able to open more than one instance at a time in the same browser (different ...
6 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Future consideration

Allow "group commit" as other RDBMS

For high use OLTP systems, there can be a lot of I/O pressure on the logical log due to intense rate of logical log buffer flushing (most customer don't ant data loss so they use UNBUFFERED LOG). Setting BUFFERED LOG at session level would hardly ...
over 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 3 Future consideration

Use the agent name field instead of display_name for collaborator tool name generation in multi-agent configurations

Background / Current Behavior In watsonx Orchestrate, a multi-agent configuration consists of one router (parent) agent associated with multiple specialist (child) agents as collaborators. We interpret that the router internally registers each col...
6 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

Online.log could also print session detail of additional memory segment allocation

In high usage OLTP systems, it is a hard work to identify which session(s) is(are) demanding too much memory from the Informix engine.A good thing for us to help to identify abnormal programs execution/behaviour would be to print session details (...
almost 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Needs more information

Add Informix/onbar in the list of VEEAM Enterprise Backup Solution supported platforms

VEEAM is a fast growing Enterprise Backup solution. As of today, Informix is not part of VEEAM's supported DBMS, but should be supported before decision makers choose other DBMS platforms.
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

onaudit for informix user - exclude system databases from the audit trail

Currently, our audit tool is configured to monitor DDL and DML actions specifically for the user "Informix." This setup ensures that our audit report contains only the information necessary for business purposes. However, it is also recording acti...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Improve performance of L1/L2 backups

Current, for L1 (or L2) backups we need to read all pages. This is highly inefficient and there are alternatives for implementing this.In the PMR we've been told this matches old FEA idsdb00010525. In this the proposed solution was to maintain a t...
almost 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

4GL Add Line Number to Character to numeric conversion error

Currently 4GL does not report the line number of Character to numeric conversion errors in the error log. By adding the line number pesky conversion problems can be identified and resolved. Currently only the Date, Time, Error Number, and message ...
about 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

Improve usability of CodeBlock creation in GUI Tool flow

When writing a CodeBlock in the Tool flow through the GUI, it is difficult to know the correct syntax. For example, a declaration such as @tool(name="") is required, but this is not obvious to users. It would be very helpful to display sample code...
about 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Needs more information